computing

Mobile phones, air traffic control, smart grids, and online gaming are all critically dependent on accurate timing across the internet. That’s why it’s so important that University of Melbourne electronic engineer Julien Ridoux and his colleagues have developed a completely new, free, software clock accurate to within a millionth of a second.

Imagine printing your own room lighting, lasers, or solar cells from inks you buy at the local newsagent. Jacek Jasieniak and his colleagues at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and the University of Padua in Italy, have moved a step closer to such a future, by developing liquid inks to print devices known as quantum dots.

The odds that a futuristic quantum computer will be built of silicon have received a boost, thanks to new technology recently invented by researchers in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT).

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